commit

See also: Commit and commît

English

Etymology

    Inherited from Middle English committen, itself borrowed from Latin committō (“to bring together, join, compare, commit (a wrong), incur, give in charge, etc.”), from com- (“together”) + mittō (“to send”). See mission.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /kəˈmɪt/
    • Audio (UK):(file)
    • Rhymes: -ɪt
    • Hyphenation: com‧mit

    Verb

    commit (third-person singular simple present commits, present participle committing, simple past and past participle committed)

    1. (transitive) To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto.
    2. (transitive) To imprison: to forcibly place in a jail.
      • 1641, A Great Conspiracy by the Papiſts in the Kingdome of Ireland, Diſcovered by the Lords Juſtices, and Counſell at Dublin, and Proclaimed There Octob. 23, 1641‎[1], page 2:
        and ſome of the Conſpirators committed to the Caſtle of Dublin by us
    3. (transitive) To forcibly evaluate and treat in a medical facility, particularly for presumed mental illness.
      Tony should be committed to a nuthouse!
    4. (transitive) To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
      to commit murder
      to commit a series of heinous crimes
      to commit suicide
      (also see usage notes)
    5. (ambitransitive) To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step. (Traditionally used only reflexively but now also without oneself etc.)[1]
      to commit oneself to a certain action
      to commit to a relationship
      • 8 March, 1769, Junius, letter to the Duke of Grafton
        You might have satisfied every duty of political friendship, without committing the honour of your sovereign.
      • 1803, John Marshall, The Life of George Washington:
        Any sudden assent to the proposal […] might possibly be considered as committing the faith of the United States.
      • 2005 July 31, Teri Karush Rogers, quoting Julie Friedman, “Fear of Committing?”, in The New York Times‎[2], →ISSN:
        […] the perennial bachelor and “the single woman who has never married, who is afraid to commit to an apartment, because she's afraid if she somehow commits to a studio or one-bedroom then she's never going to get married,” said Julie Friedman, a senior associate broker at Bellmarc Realty.
      • 2019 December 9, qntm, “Wild Light”, in There Is No Antimemetics Division, →ISBN, pages 191–192:
        And what actinic, mind-wrenching form could the countermeme take? How could human hands assemble something so devastatingly powerful and hold it steady; what human mind could wield it without exploding from the inside out? What would deploying that concept in anger do to human ideatic space? How far out from the solution is modern memetic science, a year, a century? What insane impossibility has Hughes just committed himself to?
    6. (transitive, computing, databases) To make a set of changes permanent.
      • 2005, Thearon Willis, Beginning Visual Basic 2005 Databases, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 343:
        When all SQL statements in the transaction are executed successfully, the transaction is committed and all the work that the SQL statements performed is made a permanent part of the database.
      • 2014, Wlodzimierz Gajda, Git Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach, Apress, →ISBN, page 86:
        We can commit all unstaged files with one command: […]
    7. (transitive, programming) To integrate new revisions into the public or master version of a file in a version control system.
    8. (intransitive, obsolete) To enter into a contest; to match; often followed by with.[2]
      • 1616, Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Poetaster. [To the Reader.]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, →OCLC, page 348:
        For, in theſe ſtrifes, and on ſuch perſons, were as wretched to affect a victorie, as it is vnhappy to be committed with them.
      • 1677, Richard Gilpin, “part II, chapter VII”, in Dæmonologia Sacra‎[3], London: J. D., page 313:
        […] and from hence ( as when Fire and Water are committed together ) ariſeth a most troubleſome conflict.
      • 1877 [1804 March 4], Lord Castlereagh, quotee, “part II, chapter VII”, in Sidney James Owen, editor, Selection from the Despatches, Treaties, and Other Papers of the Marquess Wellesley […] ‎[4], Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 263:
        […] whilst it commits us in hostility with the three greatest military powers of the empire.
    9. (transitive, obsolete, Latinism) To confound.
      • 1673, John Milton, “[Sonnet] XIII. To Mr. H. Lawes, on his Aires.”, in Poems, &c. upon Several Occasions, London: […] Tho[mas] Dring […], →OCLC, page 57:
        Harry whoſe tuneful and well meaſur'd Song / Firſt taught our Engliſh Muſick how to ſpan / Words with juſt note and accent, not to ſcan / With Midas Ears, committing ſhort and long;
    10. (obsolete, intransitive) To commit an offence; especially, to fornicate.
    11. (obsolete, intransitive) To be committed or perpetrated; to take place; to occur.
      • 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter VIII, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume II, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book IV, page 51:
        As a vaſt Herd of Cows in a rich Farmer's Yard, if, while they are milked, they hear their Calves at a Diſtance, lamenting the Robbery which is then committing, roar and bellow: So roared forth the Somerſetſhire Mob an Hallaloo, made up of almoſt as many Squawls, Screams, and other different Sounds, as there were Perſons, or indeed Paſſions, among them: […]

    Conjugation

    Conjugation of commit
    infinitive (to) commit
    present tense past tense
    1st-person singular commit committed
    2nd-person singular commit, committest† committed, committedst†
    3rd-person singular commits, committeth† committed
    plural commit
    subjunctive commit committed
    imperative commit —
    participles committing committed

    † Archaic or obsolete.

    Synonyms

    • (forcibly treat): 5150 (US slang); section (UK slang)
    • (integrate new revisions into the public version of a file): check in

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    • → German: committen

    Translations

    Noun

    commit (plural commits)

    1. (computing, databases) The act of committing (e.g. a database transaction), making it a permanent change; such a change.
      • 1988, Klaus R Dittrich, Advances in Object-Oriented Database Systems: 2nd International Workshop:
        To support locking and process synchronization independently of transaction commits, the server provides semaphore objects […]
      • 2009, Jon Loeliger, Version Control with Git:
        Every Git commit represents a single, atomic changeset with respect to the previous state.
    2. (programming) The submission of source code or other material to a source control repository.
    3. (informal, sports, chiefly US) A person, especially a high school athlete, who agrees verbally or signs a letter committing to attend a college or university.

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    See also

    References

    1. ^ http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/american_speech/v074/74.3shapiro.html
    2. ^ James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Commit, v.”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume II (C), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 684, column 1.

    Further reading

    French

    Pronunciation

    Verb

    commit

    1. third-person singular past historic of commettre
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